GRK 2323: Conducive Design of Cyber-physical Production Systems

RTG侧重于网络物理生产系统（CPPS）中人类操作员和技术之间合作的有利设计。CPPS由网络连接的数字（网络）和物理系统组件组成。它们的架构允许在最短的时间尺度上进行系统更改，由此产生的灵活性要求人类和自动化的适应性决策和行动达到一个新的水平。目前的研究议程主要是从技术角度来讨论这方面的问题。提出的RTG补充了这些方法，强调了以人为中心的CPPS设计方法。研究的核心问题是如何通过人与机器提供的独特潜力的结合来实现整个社会技术系统的最佳性能。RTG的主要目标是对CPPS的有利设计如何影响人类操作员的能力、健康和信任提供科学见解。将重点讨论三个专题组：适应变化的战略、能力的发展和维持以及人类状态的评估和评价。为了解决与这三个集群相关的问题，跨学科研究团队将结合和调整迄今为止仅在相对独立的研究传统范围内考虑的理论概念。它将开发新的方法，并在原型系统中对它们进行评估，为得出适当的干预措施提供经验基础。研究两个应用领域（过程工业和移动农业系统）中CPPS的设计，将允许将见解推广到更广泛的CPPS领域。跨学科资格课程提供本地和国际指导和培训。它包括反映和讨论不同学科的目标、价值和方法的座谈会，以及工程科学和心理学交叉的课程。此外，它为RTG的博士研究人员提供了多种机会，与当地和国际专家分享和讨论他们的工作。为了促进跨学科的合作和交流，RTG在参与研究人员的设计和评估实验室周围组织为一个项目屋。此外，每位博士研究员由两名来自不同学科的参与研究人员指导。通过该计划，博士研究人员将获得有关学科科学传统的知识和能力，同时将受益于学科之间接口研究提供的创新潜力。

The RTG focuses on the Conducive Design of the cooperation between human operators and technology in cyber-physical production systems (CPPS). CPPS consist of a combination of net-work-connected digital (cyber) and physical system components. Their architecture allows for sys-tem changes on shortest time scales, with the resulting flexibility requiring a new level of adaptive decision-making and action by humans and automation. Current research agendas are mainly dis-cussing this aspect from a technical perspective. The proposed RTG complements these approaches with an emphasis on methods for the human-centered design of CPPS. The core research question is how to achieve optimal performance of the entire socio-technical system via the combination of the unique potentials provided by humans and machines. The RTG’s main goal is to contribute scientific insights on how the conducive design of CPPS influences competencies, health and trust of human operators. Three thematic clusters will be in the fo-cus of interest: adaptation strategies for changeability, the development and maintenance of competencies, as well as the assessment and evaluation of human states. To address issues related to the three clusters, the interdisciplinary research team will combine and adapt theoretical concepts that so far have only been considered within the boundaries of relatively independent research traditions. It will develop new methods and evaluate them in prototypical systems to provide an empirical basis for deriving suitable interventions. Studying the design of CPPS in two application domains – process industries and mobile agricultural systems – will allow for generalizing the insights to a wide range of CPPS domains. The interdisciplinary qualification programme offers local as well as international mentoring and training. It includes colloquia for reflecting and discussing goals, values, and methods of the different disciplines, as well as courses at the intersection of engineering sciences and psychology. Further-more, it provides manifold opportunities for the RTG’s doctoral researchers to share and discuss their work with local and international experts. To promote interdisciplinary collaboration and communication, the RTG is organized as a project house around the participating researchers’ design and evaluation laboratories. Moreover, each doctoral researcher is supervised by two participat-ing researchers from different disciplines. With this programme, the doctoral researchers will acquire knowledge and competencies regarding the scientific traditions of the disciplines, and at the same time will benefit from the innovative potential provided by the research at the interfaces between disciplines.